... Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) by sending peacekeepers to UN missions7 and taking lead roles in peace talks.8 Economically, Canada is the largest nonAfrican investor in the mining industry in ... missions in the DRC were disregarded and because alleged war criminals live on Canadian soil un-investigated and un-sanctioned, Canada must: End impunity for war criminals in Canada The Canadian war ... democratic transition by actively participating in the international Comité international d’Accompagnement de la Transition [ in the DRC], see, CIDA, “Canada and the G8 Africa Action Plan: Maintaining...
... (India) BMTC Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (India) BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (India) BWSSB Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (India) CAG Controller and Auditor General ... BAI Board of Audit and Inspection (Republic of Korea) BDA Bangalore Development Authority (India) BESCOM Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (India) BMP Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (India) ... Against the backdrop of rural Rajasthan, the largest state in India, an organization called the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) has, ina little over a decade, developed into one of India’s most...
... individuals from the 290 available for validation based on EBV for each trait and comparing the average hatch-corrected phenotype of the selected individuals Marker based parental average (PA) ... that GBLUP can be equally accurate or even superior in prediction for traits for which no individual QTL explains a large proportion of the variation [17,18] Correlations for selection at an early ... were available (Figures and 2) This extra information increased the accuracy of all methods and particularly of PBLUP Using marker-based relationships increased accuracies up to over two-fold for...
... with a factored model for natural language parsing In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 15 MIT Press Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins 2004 ... dictionary and n-gram based content analysis and achieved 91.5% accuracy using an SVM classifier We also use a supervised machine learning approach, but classification by gender is naturally a binary ... as age decreases where applicable Any feature that increased, decreased, or fluctuated should have some positive impact on the accuracy of predicting age 4.1 Online Behavior and Interests Online...
... same Ala substitution was reported to cause a significant decrease in biological activities of [Ala8]NKA measured in human tissues [44] Indeed, [Ala8]NKA(4–10) was shown to be a weak partial agonist ... control at t ¼ for each peptide The percentage of degradation was calculated by comparing the area of the peaks of the intact peptide at t ¼ and t ¼ 60 Binding assays Binding assays were carried ... surfaces the conformers of b-amino acids that fit with canonical conformations of a- amino acids, two (/ ) w) Ramachandran maps corresponding to h torsion angle values of +60°, gauche(+), or )60°,...
... both geographically and in terms of type of usage: municipal and domestic, agricultural or industrial Agriculture in India, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia (excluding China) is forecast to create the ... cause flooding in low-lying coastal areas, displacing “tens to hundreds of millions of people” in places such as Southeast Asia, particularly Bangladesh and Vietnam, and small Caribbean and Pacific ... environmental and social changes that could bring both risks and opportunities in the search for sustainable growth For this report more than two dozen forecasts have been analyzed from international agencies,...
... might mean investing in IT infrastructure, additional management training, etc In certain cases, elevating the system constraints may be carried out by the offloading mechanism, i.e., assigning some ... to maintain the planned start dates for these gating activities For all other activities, the planned start dates are ignored Instead, a “road-runner” (Herroelen and Leus, 2002) or relay race ... resource feasible as explained above Resource buffers are introduced in CC in order to ensure that resources are available for activities on the critical chain These are usually just warning signals—resources...
... own balance sheets Shareholders rightly prefer investing in financial assets on their own and having corporate managers focus on investing in real operating assets Rather than investing in stocks ... corporate pension plan is to start with the case of an individual investor who has money in both a taxable brokerage account and a tax-sheltered IRA Having decided to invest half in stocks and half ... higher anticipated earnings without conceding that they bear any additional risk—tantamount to allowing risky mutual funds to report what they expect to earn on average, instead of what they actually...
... are capital gains tax breaks (Arizona, Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Vermont) and deductions for federal income taxes paid (Alabama, Iowa, Louisiana, ... and the District of Columbia permanently increased their state sales tax rate Arizona, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Kansas, and Nevada all temporarily increased the sales tax Other Notable Changes ... overall Some graduated-rate income taxes are about as fair as a flat tax — and some nominally graduated state income taxes are actually less progressive than some flat-rate taxes The level of graduation...
... to prominence as a ski resort for a number of special reasons, including a major investment in ski infrastructure, a new highway, and a major airport Even very local factors can have a strong ... more valuable If Bulgaria mirrors Ireland’s transformation, the coming decade may be amazing Table 2-1 Ireland and Bulgaria Compared, the European Union Effect Revealed Factor Ireland Bulgaria ... both in their home country and overseas – a large element within their financial portfolios Property is an appealing investment for private investors as well as financial institutions Banks and...
... told Mr Garland so, and he gave me permission to see what I could I was fortunate in obtaining work, and ina short time I had acquired something of a reputation as a seamstress and dress-maker The ... it faded all too soon Mr Keckley let me speak kindly of his faults proved dissipated, and a burden instead of a help-mate More than all, I learned that he was a slave instead of a free man, as ... reported that he was captured There was always a great crowd around this figure, and I was naturally attracted towards it I worked my way to the figure, and in examining the dress made the pleasing...
... Centering Constraint as stated in (9) is systematically violated by a certain group of counterexamples in Japanese This has to with what Kuno calls empathy, a grammatical feature especially prominent ... is the indirect or second object 204 (23) at all clear in English.2° Masao wa Arabia-go o naratte-iru MasaoTP-SB Arabic OB is-learning "Masao is learning Arabic." The lack (or dispensability) ... pronominal, and its translation equivalent appears in tAn expression realizes a center rather than denoting it Realization allows either a value- free or value- loaded interpretation (see Grosz et al...
... Rapamycin levels for the asparaginase plus rapamycin and vincristine plus rapamycin cohorts are not reported due to the treatment schedules of asparaginase and vincristine Asparaginase and vincristine ... following cohorts: untreated, rapamycin treated, asparaginase treated, asparaginase plus rapamycin combination treated, vincristine treated, vincristine plus rapamycin combination treated, sunitinib ... increasing survival when compared to the untreated cohort Single agent asparaginase is not as effective as rapamycin at decreasing tumor volume or increasing survival Furthermore, adding asparaginase...
... clinical and non-clinical populations with psychological complaints and has been validated in primary health care [31,32] and in occupational health care [7,29] The four scales of the DSQ are internally ... reported extensively [34] Changing appraisal processes and enhancing coping skills are the fundaments for coping with stress more effectively Therefore, learning a method for managing demands and ... cases for research purposes "Cutoff scores are used ina wide variety of settings to divide a score scale or other set of data into two or more categories, with inferences made or actions taken...
... follow-up information allowing one to inform the coordinator In order to keep this information flow manageable, several coordinators are defined when numerous entities have to be coordinated, which ... Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing ISSN 1860-5168 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ERP systems and organisational change : a socio-technical insight - (Springer series in advanced ... mapping for making a clear distinction between improvements regarding layout or material handling (physical system), information processing or software (informational system) or decision making (decisional...
... Manufacturing companies can no longer be seen as individual systems, but rather as participators in an extended value chain (Browne and Jiangang, 1999) Optimising this value chain is one major challenge ... totally integrated systems may be traced back to the 1970s Corporations seek business integration basically because customers and suppliers demand and expect it For intra-organisational integration ... external integration are somewhat different Business drivers for intraorganisational integration includes higher ability for organisational learning, better ability to respond to market change, and in...
... to be linked to on-hand activity, be it material or intellectual Thus, information is temporally and spatially situated Data form a potential basis for information; they are not information by ... quantitative to more qualitative ones This formalisation, combined with computerisation, transforms personal information into shared information at an organisational level Each employee is asked ... using a calendar and a calculator to transform the financial data organised by period into a monthly logic However, as we noted in the case description, the most striking strategy remains the indication...
... pudding, after all, is in the eating An organisation, since it is an amalgamation of many practices, also has many domains of sense making, each endowed with its own categories, and supporting ... underlying syntactic/semantic underpinning of human interaction The Coordinator thus aimed to formalise and standardise the informal background conversation typical of all organisations Suchman’s ... but as an organising (Weick, 1979) Organisation is the outcome of a hybrid enactment: both a formal system of laws and regulations, and an informal domain of open-ended and continuing sense-making...
... that can be pursued by managers to gain, maintain or repair organisational legitimacy To date, the analysis of all the papers published in the six top-ranking journals in sociology and management ... 2002) In order to “grasp” how a function – which is often associated to a department within an organisation – can gain, maintain or regain legitimacy, a longitudinal study was conducted within a ... legitimacy and (2) several axes for identifying strategies that managers can adopt to gain organisational legitimacy, Suchman’s work gives an interesting twist to the analysis of the ways in which...